Why Do People Find Email So Difficult To Deal With?

I noticed two articles in the NY Times this morning that pressed my email theme button.  The first was actually from yesterday – Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made

June 15, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld

When I Said Email I Meant Messaging

In my I Love Email post, I got a wonderful comment from my friend Fred Wilson that said: to each his/her own these days. my kids use facebook and text

April 30, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

I Love Email

Email.  Email.  Email. My partner Chris Wand just put up a post titled Did Darwin Skip Over Email?  Every now and then the "Email is dead" meme makes the rounds

April 28, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Making Email Connections at an Early Age

I spend plenty of time making connections between people.  Email has certainly made this a lot easier.  One of my best friends – Warren Katz (the founder / CEO of

April 8, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Peanut Butter and Plaxo is like Microsoft and Chocolate

Eh – shitty metaphor.  But Bill nails it in his Dear Microsoft: Please Buy Plaxo post.  I don’t have a nickel in Plaxo, but this has been an obvious fit for

January 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Who Really Owns Your Email?

I’ve periodically engaged in the debate about who actually owns your email.  The assertion that email sent from your corporate email address is owned by the company is a difficult

December 23, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Social Networks In Obvious Places

Upon my return from a week off the grid, I was slaughtered by Facebook invites, LinkedIn invites, and an endless stream of unread blog posts.  It only took me 75

December 10, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Email APIs Are Coming – But Where Are They?

Pete Warden has a good post up titled Google, Yahoo and MSN Mail APIs. In it, he points at the various “sort of APIs” that are “sort of public.” Later

November 19, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Phew – Time to Go Home

I’m sitting at the W Hotel in Union Square as Amy packs up.  We are finally heading home to Boulder after being on the road for 10 days.  We had

November 18, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

More on Email Before A Day of Email

If you are following along at home, a gang of us are getting together in NY today to discuss email.  Tom Evslin – one of the gang – has a

November 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld